{"id":657442,"date":"2026-01-06T11:17:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T05:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=657442"},"modified":"2026-01-06T11:17:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T05:47:36","slug":"crude-oil-prices-slip-amid-us-venezuela-conflict-whats-the-outlook-for-black-gold-and-reasons-behind-fall-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/crude-oil-prices-slip-amid-us-venezuela-conflict-whats-the-outlook-for-black-gold-and-reasons-behind-fall-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Crude oil prices slip amid US-Venezuela conflict: What&#8217;s the outlook for &#8216;black gold&#8217; and reasons behind fall? Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a stunning turn of events, the US attacked Venezuela over the weekend, captured its leader, Nicolas Maduro, and imposed a naval blockade. The chaos in the Latin American nation, once an oil-producing powerhouse, is being keenly eyed, as this event adds a &#8220;geopolitical risk premium&#8221; on energy markets.<\/p>\n<p>In the initial reaction, Brent crude oil fell as much as 1.2% to $60 a barrel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a stunning turn of events, the US attacked Venezuela over the weekend, captured its leader, Nicolas Maduro, and imposed a naval blockade. The chaos in the Latin American nation, once an oil-producing powerhouse, is being keenly eyed, as this event adds a &#8220;geopolitical risk premium&#8221; on energy markets. In the initial reaction, Brent crude oil fell as much as 1.2% to $60 a barrel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}